• cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    145·
    4 个月前

    I know a few teachers, the “cringy and bad” is the goal, not a mistake. It’s apparently quite therapeutic watching the “cool kids” squirm. How bad can you make them, but not make it obvious what you’re doing?

    The fact that it also helps a lot of kids remember it is almost just a bonus.

    • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
      68·
      4 个月前

      I’ve got a friend who was slightly too old when the word yeet became popular. He decided he would use it confidently, often, and incorrect. He still does.

      He’s excited to embarrass his kids by doing that with whatever the current slang is when they are 12 or 13.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
      16·
      4 个月前

      YES! Yes holy shit, I love to make kids cringe by intentionally using memes wrong.

      I’m not even a teacher but this is the best part of being a full adult.

    • BossDj@lemm.ee
      16·
      4 个月前

      Yup and the “cool” ones who don’t engage will suddenly be engaged with it and paying attention

    • TriflingToadEnglish
      24·
      4 个月前

      I really hope in 20 years teachers will uses skibidi toilets running around the screen as the way to explain migration

  • Destide@feddit.ukEnglish
    39·
    4 个月前

    But you know what osmosis is now don’t you. Also count yourselves lucky you get memes we got “raps”

  • Zement@feddit.nl
    15·
    4 个月前

    When I use memes of my childhood (e.g. Rage Faces) the reactions are similar. They don’t realize they stand on the shoulders of giants.

  • HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
    14·
    4 个月前

    School toilets are about to become even more traumatic when gen alpha starts teaching.

    At least I just have random nyan cat bullet points in my slides, with a lot of random loss thrown in.

  • 5715@feddit.orgDeutsch
    142·
    4 个月前

    My speculation is that teenagers react so vile to adults trying to fit in partially as a unwittingly defensive mechanism. Teenagers have some social skills, but not all and thus having separate youth culture provides spaces for learning - adults trying to fit in are possible OP in those spaces and keeping out adults altogether might help with abuse prevention as well.

    I don’t really know how to test or research this speculation though.

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
      14·
      4 个月前

      Well, to start, you need an old psychologist, and a young psychologist.

      And probably several psychology grad students.

      And then you can have a scientific study.

  • bluewing@lemm.ee
    12·
    4 个月前

    Joke’s on the kids—It’s the cringe I’m aiming for. I live to hear the groans and see the eye rolls.

  • Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    11·
    4 个月前

    Whatever I heard you’d say today would go in my slides for tomorrow. I would be the cringiest and baddest teacher ever.

  • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
    11·
    4 个月前

    They’re not trying to “fit in”, they’re trying to reach students with their own language. For those students’ benefit! Be nice to teachers…

    • zarkanian
      21·
      4 个月前

      Yeah, everybody knows that kids can’t understand you if you don’t talk in memes.

      • bluewing@lemm.ee
        4·
        4 个月前

        There is a psychology to using cringy memes. Can’t use them all the the time, and you need to fit the right cringe into the right place, but when you hit it, it does tend to make them remember a point they might not have.

        Much of teaching a classroom full of kids effectively involves a perverse mix of psychological warfare, manipulation, and entertainment. You should try it some time.

  • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
    5·
    4 个月前

    I would say if it serves a purpose, helps you to drive a point across, go ahead.

    But don’t make any other slide a meme please.